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Giant Greenland iceberg slams into Joe Island and survives

A giant iceberg measuring more than 76 square kilometers broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier in August 2026, marking the Arctic’s largest glacier calving event since 2020. The berg later slammed into Joe Island but survived without breaking apart, and satellites are now tracking it as it drifts through Nares Strait.

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This star has the strangest sky in the galaxy

The newfound star S301 orbits the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole so closely that its view of the heavens gets twisted

  • S301 is a massive star orbiting Sagittarius A, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
  • S301's orbit is highly elliptical, bringing it 1.7 billion km from the black hole at perigalacticon.

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